Re: Moly Barrels etc

Posted by Chris Walker on
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/C-S-74-Entering-Leadville-tp17245p17258.html

Keith,

I guess the barrels or steel drums would be shipped in empty and out full, right? How large is a 600# barrel? I probably need a bunch of these based on the warehouse.
About crotch high.  
Some dimensions of various barrels can be found here: https://www.homenish.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/average-wine-barrel-dim.jpg
I wondered also if the barrels came in knocked down perhaps in crates, maybe I'm a little precognitive here.


photo from Climax by Stephen M. Voynick
Mineral Belt V-II has a picture of a Millhand sacking Moly. at Climax pg 230.

See: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/early-COLX-tank-cars-tp5270p5323.html for Barrels awaiting shipment or filling.

And interesting about the tank cars.
The mention earlier about there being no Conoco tankcars after 1938 on the C&S and the presence of large tanks down at Leadville lead me to that theory, especially with the need to decant product into drums for field refueling, storage issues at Climax.
See: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Any-oil-depots-on-the-High-Line-Denver-Leadville-tp3667p3670.ht

With respect to the boxcars with the roof hatches, when do we suppose the hatches were added? Was this a post-1938 thing? Or a pre-1938 thing?
The C&S started modifying rolling stock in 1929 for Climax bound loads, e.g. the #4600-4615 Coals re-fitted with drop-ends, so anytime after that.